The best Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen

The best Quotes by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. His most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Red Shoes", "The Princess and the Pea", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", "The Little Match Girl", and "Thumbelina".

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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"Just living is not enough", said the butterfly.
"One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."
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The human world... it's a mess.
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
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When I find the right girl, I'll know. Without a doubt, it'll just - bam - hit me. Like lightning.
Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid
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Children have got to be free to lead their own lives.
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
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The seaweed is always greener In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there, but that is a big mistake
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
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Who says that my dreams have to stay just my dreams?
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Triton: "He's a human! You're a mermaid."
Arielle: "That doesn't make us enemies."
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I don't know when, I don't know how
But i know something's starting right now
Watch and you'll see, some day I'll be
Part of your world
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You got your own style, now let it shine through
And remember no matter what, you've got to be you
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
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Far better than any dream girl is one of flesh and blood. One warm, and caring, and right before your eyes.
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Have I ever been wrong? I mean... when it's important?
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Hm. Teenagers. They think they know everything. You give them an inch, they swim all over you.
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
As long as you live under my ocean, you'll obey my rules!
King Triton in The Little Mermaid
I don't see how a world that makes such wonderful things could be bad.
The snarfblatt dates back to prehistorical times, when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day.
It's a dinglehopper. Humans use these little babies to straighten their hair out.
Isn't this great? The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face. A perfect day to be at sea!
Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid
Will you get your head out of the clouds and back in the water where it belongs?
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
It's time Ursula took matters into her own tentacles!
Somebody's got to nail that girl's fins to the floor.
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
Boy, what a soft shell I'm turning out to be.
Sebastian in The Little Mermaid
I consider myself a reasonable merman.
King Triton in The Little Mermaid
Flounder: "Do you really think there might be sharks around here?"
Ariel: "Flounder, don't be such a guppy!"
You can't get something for nothing, you know.
We mustn't lurk in doorways. It's rude. One might question your upbringing.
Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.
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The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.
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Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.
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Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!
Dory in Finding Nemo
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
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Songs are as sad as the listener.
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One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
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Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment.
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This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
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People learn to love their chains.
Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10
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Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.
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Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.
Even the smallest of us are capable of great things.
Master Chow in Minions - 2: The Rise of Gru
Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
Emperor of China in Mulan
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What if you slept ? And what if in your sleep you dreamed? And what if in your dream you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if when you awoke you had that flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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For women are as Roses, whose fairr flowre,
Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre.
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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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Whoever said happines comes with sunshine, has never danced in the rain!
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Eternal sunshine creates deserts.
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If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.
Donald Tusk (about German soldiers helping with floodings in Poland) - September 2024

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